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And Eichmann was a slippery fellow.
He was as un-banal as they come.
Read it in lieu of seeing the sluggish, un-grippingOperation Finale.
She was either hung or machine-gunned, depending on whose memory were watching.
Theres a problem when you cant keep ghosts of Holocaust victims straight.
The pacing is off from the first scenes, thick with exposition but skimpy on clarity.
On their second date, Klaus brings Sylvia to a Nazi rally, from which she runs weeping.
Klaus wonders, Could she be Jewish?
Sylvia confirms the man with whom Klaus lives is not his uncle when Klaus says father.
The master race, ladies and gentlemen.
I took a Hippocratic oath, she tells him.
This isEichmann, he responds.
A fellow agent warns Hanna that Malkin will let her down: You know he lets everyone down.
But Hanna does come along, if only to keep Malkin in her sights.
Simon Russell Beale toddles in as David Ben-Gurion to remind the team of the momentousness of their task.
The Israelis have a training montage.
Malkin sits with Hanna, gazing into the Argentine night.
I saw [Eichmann] with his son, he says.
Watching the trains go by.
Hanna says, Were going to get him, an oddly inapt response.
She plainly needs to retake the Hippocratic Oath.
Weitz doesnt have Ben Afflecks shamelessness or his talent for ratcheting up the stakes.
The fleeting good moments inOperation Finalecome from a few of the actors.
Greg Hill has a seething presence as the agent whod like to finish off Eichmann on the spot.
